MANILA, Philippines — Businessman Ramon Ang has rejected the Nationalist People’s Coalition’s (NPC) suggestion for him to run for president in 2022, Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III disclosed on Monday.
Sotto, acting chairman of NPC, said it was around October last year when they started courting Ang to run for president.
“Syempre meron kaming mga informal na mga talks ng mga napupusuan namin na sana si ganito ay tumakbo pero noong naguumpisa na naming kausapin, ayaw naman e, so we have abandoned that idea,” he said in an online interview with reporters.
(Of course, we had informal talks with people that we want to run [for president] but they refused when we started …
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